George W. Lambert (son of Thomas Lambert) was born Abt. 1815 in Manchester, Lancaster Shire, England, and died May 10, 1852 in St. Louis, Missouri. He married Sarah Powell on January 16, 1838 in Manchester, Lancaster, Shire, England, daughter of Thomas Powell.
Notes for George W. Lambert: George Lambert was an Englishman, who immigrated to the United States about 1844 with his wife and a little girl. He was a milkman, or dairy farmer, in St. Louis County, Missouri. He and his wife, Sarah, had more daughters and a son, after settling in St. Louis, and his wife was "with child" when he died at less than Forty years of age. His widow remarried and had two more sons.
George was born in 1815, believed to be son of Thomas Lambert of Manchester, Lancaster Shire, England. Lancashire, as the country is sometimes known, is the northwest part of the British Isles, on the Irish Sea.
As a young adult, George was occupied as a "carter," meaning he hauled supplies or provisions of some sort-perhaps even milk-in and out, or around, the city of Manchester.
On January 16, 1838 (Manchester Cathedral MR Date), George Lambert was married to Sarah Powell, twenty-three year old daughter of Thomas powell, another carter in Manchester.
Lambert was living on Pump Street, London Road, Manchester, when they were married. Their first two children, however, were born after they settled at No. 4 Scholes Street, near Tib Street. Sarah and George's first child was a boy, William, who was christened at Manchester Cathedral on June 2, 1839; The second was a girl, Mary Jane, christened on November 1, 1840, at the Cathedral. The boy died shortly after birth although English church records do not say when.
Pagot & Slater's Manchester Directory for 1841 listed George Lambert, "Carter," as residing at No. 4 Scholes Street. By 1843, however, his family had left Manchester, undoubtedly headed for the United States.
By 1845, the Lamberts were in St. Louis, were a daughter, Caroline, was born that year. A son, Richard Lambert, was born in June, 1847, and another daughter, Roseanna, was born in October, 1850.
On February 16, 1847 (St. Louis Deeds G4:405), George Lambert leased farmland in St. Louis Township from Mrs. Ellen Ann Taylor, widow of John Holmes Taylor. Under terms of the lease, Lambert was to pay $125 annually to Mrs Taylor for a strip of land of 2 by 25 arpens in St. Louis, County. A deed of release was entered the same day (St. Louis Deeds A5:278). This land was bounded by property of Page & Benoist, and it was located in rural St. Louis County, west of Grand Avenue, then the city's western boundary, and probably in the North section.
Taylor, the seller's husband, was a native of Donegal, Ireland, but "for many years a resident of St. Louis," when he died on November 23, 1844 (Missouri Republican 11/25/1844); He and his wife, formerly Ellen Ann Galaspie, were married on June 18, 1832 (Missouri Republican 7/3/1832); The ceremony was performed by Reverend by L. H. Corson, a Protestant Episcopal minister who held services throughout St. Louis County, as far west as the tiny town of Manchester.
On October 27, 1849, George W. Lambert filed a declaration of intent to become a citizen of the United States.
In 1850 (St. Louis Census 1850:Co.502[#1560]:19-23), a census enumerator listed Lambert's household in "District 82," comprising St. Ferdinand and St. Louis Townships, as George, 35, milkman; wife, Sarah, also 35; daughters, Mary Jane, 10, and Caroline, 5, and son Richard 3 years old. Sarah, it turned out, was pregnant at the time, because in October of that very year, she gave birth to another girl, Roseanna.
During Lambert's six years in St. Louis, he developed some-what of an extensive dairy farm in the rural area adjacent to or near the western city limits. He appears to have prospered. He must have subleased land he leased from Mrs. Taylor because he later collected rents on the property.
In late summer of 1850, Lambert leased another farm on Old Manchester Road, sometimes called the State Road. He moved his entire herd of cows and complete dairy operation to the new location, an undetermined amount of acreage, bounded on the west by ancient King's Highway (Kings highway), between properties of Henry Shaw, a noted botanist, and Charles P. Chouteau, a descendant of St. Louis,S founding family. This leasehold was assigned to Lambert by John Johnson, assignee of William Stringer, who leased the property for ten years from Mary McRee, widow of Samuel McRee, in July, 1850.
Here, Lambert maintained and expanded his dairy. At the time of his death, he owned two milk wagons, including a large , two-horse wagon; three horses, one for riding, with all needed trappings (collars, harnesses, traces, bridles, and a saddle); a bull and twenty-three heifers and cows; two milk cans, five milk buckets and three measures, as well as farm tools such as a harrow, a couple of plows, a farm wagon, a gun and a carpet.
As another measure of his success, Lambert had an account totaling $1,000-a sizeable amount in those days-in St. Louis's State Bank of Missouri, when he died.
George Lambert died on May 10, 1852 (St. Louis VR Deaths Vol. B:79:27). He evidently suffered from gallstones and succumbed to an "ostentation of billiary organ," either his gall bladder or liver. One of St. Louis,S most capable surgeons, thirty-six year old Doctor William M. McPheeters, evidently had operated but could not save his patient's life. The physicians bill, $40, subsequently was paid out of the estate of the deceased.
Lambert's remains were laid to rest in Centenary Methodist Church's Wesleyan Cemetery, then located at Nineteenth & Franklin.
Two weeks later, on May 24thg (St. Louis Probate, Letters #3734A), Lambert's estate was filed for probate. His widow, Sarah, renounced her right to administer the case and it was turned over to public administrator DuBouffay Fremon (dit DeLaurier). He presented a list of heirs, "naming the widow, and her four children, Mary Jane, 11 year old Caroline, 6 Richard, 4 Rosanna, 19 months, and "also one child now in the womb of said widow."
Isaiah Russell (1805-1865), a steamboat pilot, was appointed guardian of Lambert's minor children. He receipted a couple of distributions on their behalf.
The original inventory, appraisement and sale showed an estate value of $821.51. Subsequently, it was increased to $1,245.51, by collections of rents due of $83.20 from James Campbell and $340.80 from P. Ryan. In distributions of 1853 and 1854, a total of $121 each went to Mary Jane, Caroline, Richard, and Rosanna. By then, administration of the estate had been turned over to a new administrator, Forty-one year old St. Louis lawyer P, Bauduy Garesche, (1812-1868).
At the estate sale on June 7, 1852, widow Sarah Lambert selected the best of dairy's personal property, "taken at appraised value in part of my dower in said estate." The wagons and dairy equipment as well as three horses, the bull, heifer and three cows amounted to $182.50; she made her mark (+) in receipt of the property.
Then, at the sale, conducted by auctioneer J.H. Douglass, the widow out bid five other buyers for most of the other farm animals and the gun and the carpet. One identifiable buyer was George Buchanan (1790-1854), St. Louis merchant & financier, who acquired three heifers, a cow and a set of traces.
The child born after Lambert's death named George, burned to death on September 6, 1852 (St. Louis VR Deaths Vol. B:154:25). This posthumous son of George also as buried in Wesleyan Cemetery, where his father was buried just four months earlier. The cemetery was allowed total payment of $53.60 out of the estate.
Final settlement of the estate came in June, 1855, after due publication of notices by Garashe in both the Weekly St, Louis Pilot and Missouri Democrat newspapers.
By then, Sarah (powell) Lambert had been living since George's death with James Campbell for more than two years. (No marriage record has been found.) Campbell, according to records in the estate, had been renter from George Lambert and may have been an employee since he also was a dairy farmer. Campbell was nearly fifteen years younger than Sarah.
In 1860 (St. Louis Census 1860:ward 10:552(#8):31-37), James Campbell, the thirty year old English-born dairy farmer, was listed by the census taker with Sarah (her age is incomplete but her birthplace was England) and her children (under the Campbell surname), Caroline, 12, Richard, 10, and "Rosini," and their own two sons, six year old William and three year old Charles Campbell. Value of Campbell's real estate-his dairy farm -was estimated at $800. Sarah's eldest daughter Mary Jane , listed on Census listed as Servant, (1860:Ward 5:148-149(#998):32-40,1-4).
In 1870 (St. Louis Census 1871:Ward 12:797b[#664]:7-13), Campbell's net worth was about the same, with $1,200 in real estate and $300 personal property. However he no longer operated a dairy farm but was employed as a "whitener," or bleacher, in a tannery, James' age was given as 39, Sarah's as 54. Sarah's three children in the household, Caroline, Richard and Rosanna, were listed again under the Campbell name. Richard Lambert, then 19, was a tanner, and his sixteen year old half brother, William Campbell, was like his father-a whitener. Charles, the youngest Campbell boy, was 13. This census also reveals that Sarah and her daughter, Caroline, were illiterate; Neither could read or write.
Sarah died on August 8, 1876 at 20th & Breman. She was sixty one years old. She was laid to rest in a single grave in Bellefontain Cemetery (Public Lot 23, Grave #844). James Campbell died on January 7th 1892. He was sixty two years old.
More About George W. Lambert: Census 1: 1850, St. Louis, Missouri. Census 2: 1850, Census-District,82 pg.502,Dwelling#1560. Occupation 1: 1838, Carter. Occupation 2: 1850, Milkman, (Owned a dairy farm). Residence: 1838, Pump Street, London Road.
More About George W. Lambert and Sarah Powell: Marriage: January 16, 1838, Manchester, Lancaster, Shire, England. Marriage Fact: January 16, 1838, England.
Children of George W. Lambert and Sarah Powell are:
William Lambert, b. June 2, 1839, Manchester, Lancaster Shire, England, d. 1839.
+Mary Jane Lambert, b. July 17, 1840, England46, d. March 10, 1915, Huron, South Dakota47.
+Caroline Lambert, b. 1845, England or at Sea (Atlantic Ocean), d. July 15, 1918, St. Louis, Missouri.
+Richard Lambert, b. June 1847, St. Louis, Missouri, d. December 27, 1904, 2918 Arlington Ave., St. Louis, Missouri.
George W. Lambert (b. Abt. 1815, d. May 10, 1852)
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